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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1867
15 - 21 April 2021
It's unique A NEW promotional campaign ‘Velez-Malaga in Spring: It’s Unique’ has been launched by the town council focusing on local tourism, ‘to offer the province of Malaga the opportunity to get to know Velez-Malaga at this time of year,’ and give a necessary boost to the local commerce and hospitality sector.
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MOTRIL IN MOURNING Classrooms close
Care programme THE PSOE in Algarrobo has called on the Junta de Andalucia to adhere to the Dependency Law and implement individual care programmes for the more than 5,600 elderly people who live alone in the province. The Socialist party claims the elderly in the province ‘are not being cared for’ and a plan must be put in place.
Dog beach ALMUÑECAR is looking into the possibility of creating a designated area for dogs on China Gorda Beach, known as Playa 21. The council’s environmental technicians have been tasked with finding the perfect spot for a ‘dog zone’ on the municipality’s beaches, which will become only the second in the province, with an established area already popular in Motril.
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MINUTE’S SILENCE: Council representatives and others gathered outside the town hall. MOTRIL is in mourning follow‐ ing the death of 18‐year‐old ‘Marina’ who allegedly died at the hands of her partner, a 34‐ year‐old woman, at the home they shared in the Varadero‐ Santa Adela neighbourhood. A minute’s silence was ob‐ served outside the town hall on Wednesday, April 14, as council representatives and others who gathered carried banners that read: ‘Motril Against Violence.’ The young woman was dis‐ covered with fatal stab wounds at a farmhouse in Camino de Pataura on Tuesday, April 13. The victim’s partner report‐
edly handed herself in to Na‐ tional Police in Motril, and al‐ legedly confessed to the killing, reports Ideal. On Wednesday, Motril Coun‐ cil expressed “its revulsion after the crime that has cost the life of a young Motrileña.” Following a minute’s silence, the mayor Luisa María García Chamorro said: “It’s the hardest day in recent times, leaving two families shattered.” She added that the people of Motril are “going through a ter‐ rible time at the moment,” and passed on condolences to all those affected by the young
woman’s death. “Two families are broken to‐ day, one because they have lost a daughter and the other be‐ cause of their daughter’s alleged involvement. “We condemn any kind of vi‐ olence, although we cannot yet qualify it as domestic violence because an investigation is un‐ derway,” she said. “Our thoughts are with Mari‐ na and Araceli, the last two vic‐ tims in Motril. We will work hard to eradicate acts of vio‐ lence in our municipality,” the mayor told press gathered in Plaza de España.
THE CCOO has announced that 45 classrooms in public schools in Malaga will be closed. A study by the Worker’s Commission has revealed 45 classrooms, at all educational levels, will be closed in Malaga for the 2021‐2022 academic year, highlighting the concern for the capital. The closures are justified by the Administration due to the decrease in the birth rate. The union has expressed: “lack of transparency of the educational Administration about these suppressions, of which it has not been informed: neither the union organi‐ sations, nor the rest of the members of the educational community. Only each of the affected educational cen‐ tres is being informed in an isolated manner.” The Junta de Andalucia has transferred 15,795 vacant places that have been made available to people in the province, based on 13,480 possible places for students 12,133 applications have been received, leaving 3,662 free spaces remaining. In the capital, 4,399 applications out of 5,697 possible vacancies have been received, leav‐ ing 1,298 places still available. These numbers validate the argument from the Ministry that no student will be left without a place in school. Data from the union shows that at least 15 classrooms will be closed in Malaga City, of which six are in sec‐ ondary education and high school, two in primary schools and the remaining in nurseries. In Marbella, there will be five closures. In Nerja, Alameda and Cuevas Bajas, two classrooms will be lost and in Torremolinos a Vocational Training classroom will be removed. The rest of the closures are in Alhaurín de la Torre, Antequera and El Burgo.